Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sergeant E. T. Tipper, Army Service Corps, who was later a Clerk in Holy Orders

1914-15 Star (S4-109382 Pte. E. T. Tipper. A.S.C); British War and Victory Medals (S4-109382 Sgt. E. T. Tipper. A.S.C); Meritorious Service Medal G.V.R., 1st issue (S4-109382 Sgt: E. T. Tipper. 24/D.T. A.S.C.) mounted as worn, very fine (4) £240-£280

M.S.M. London Gazette 14 June 1918”
‘In recognition of valuable services rendered with the Forces in France during the present War.’

Edred Thomas Tipper was born in Bedfont, Middlesex, in 1887 and attested for the Army Service Corps at Lancing, Sussex, on 15 May 1915, giving his occupation as a Lay Preacher in the Church of England. He served with the 24th Divisional Train during the Great War on the Western Front from 24 September 1915, and was advanced Sergeant on 1 September 1917. He was discharged on 16 May 1919, and in the 1939 Census is recorded as a Clerk in Holy Orders residing at St. John’s Vicarage, Kensal Green, London. He died in Paddington in 1960.